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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29794 Post contents: For the American salon left - and neoconservative soul brothers - one of the most difficult aspects to accept about a prospective Obama presidency is how much such a reality would corrode their vision of a steady-state "racist" America. For them, "colored" drinking fountains and bathrooms are as much a part of American life as car commericials and MySpace, armies of Klansmen clash by night, and from every tree a lynching noose doth hang - at least, metaphorically. "Racism" in America today is kind of an amorphous, blobby voodoo inflicting all white people, and maintaining an oppressive status quo by almost magical/witchy means. That's because there are little or no actual, substantial nooses or Klansmen we can determine in <i>this</i> dimension of reality, the one with Reese's Peanut Cups and snow tires. No, racism is a chronic affliction hard-wired into the white soul. We are told this not by creepy radicals concocting bombs in the shadows, but by our mainstream "experts." Their politics and worldview are so hysterically anachronistic they would have no presence at all in the American square without support from like-minded - and blinkered - American media and academia. That's why any change is preferred, and that's the one benefit of our long, pointless crusade in the Middle East: Revulsion to it may provoke fissures in the fabricated reality so relentlessly shoved at us. The American Imperium is their baby - and if they're wrong about that, what else are they wrong about? Sent at: 2008 12 02